Richard Diebenkorn Paintings
Woman and Checkerboard
Date:
1956 Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
59 x 56 in. (149.9 x 142.2 cm) Signed:
"RD 56" lower left; "R. Diebenkorn/Woman and Checkerboard/1956" reverse Current owner:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.
Credit Line:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum purchase, Second Pacific Coast Biennial Fund CR number:
2081 RD number:
1195 Exhibitions
- Oakland Art Museum, Calif., Richard Diebenkorn One Man Guest of Honor Exhibition 08 September 1956 - 30 September 1956
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition 10 September 1957 - 13 October 1957
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition 26 October 1957 - 01 January 1958
- Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Wash., Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition 15 January 1958 - 09 February 1958
- Portland Art Museum, Ore., Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition 20 February 1958 - 20 March 1958
- Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, N.Y., Art across America: A Selection of American Art from Collections Open to the Public in Communities of One Hundred Thousand or Less 15 October 1960 - 31 December 1960
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., Two Hundred Years of American Painting 04 March 1961 - 09 April 1961
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., Artist of the Month: Richard Diebenkorn 08 October 1977 - 16 November 1977
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., From Avery to Zurbarán: A New View of the Permanent Collection 03 December 1983 - 12 February 1984
- Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting, 1956–1966 27 March 1984 - 28 April 1984
- Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif., The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting, 1956–1966 20 June 1984 - 15 September 1984
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., In Memoriam—Richard Diebenkorn 08 April 1993 - 02 May 1993
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., About Faces 11 March 1995 - 29 October 1995
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., Figuratively Speaking: 20th Century Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper 17 August 1996 - 03 November 1996
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now! 13 March 2004 - 21 November 2004
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969 11 February 2012 - 06 May 2012
Bibliography
- Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolors 1957
- Richard Diebenkorn Frontier, January 1957
- West's Artists Display Talent Los Angeles Times, 22 September 1957
- Pacific Coast Biennial Is Tops Oakland Tribune, 24 November 1957
- San Francisco Arts, February 1958
- Diebenkorn to Show at World's Fair Berkeley Daily Gazette, 7 March 1958
- Art Across America: A Selection of American Art from Collections Open to the Public in Communities of 100,000 or less 1960
- Gallery Notes: Artist of the Month–Richard Diebenkorn October 1977
- The Figurative Mode: Bay Area, 1956–1966 1984
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Selected Works 1991
- From Avery to Zurbarán: A New View of the Permanent Collection 1993
- 'Figuratively Speaking' Offers a Historical Survey Mostly Culled from the Vaults of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Los Angeles Times, 5 September 1996
- New Frontier in Artwork: Exhibit Explores What it Means to Be American by Juxtaposing U.S. and Latin Art San Luis Obispo Tribune, 2 May 2004
- Two Worlds Beat As One: SBMA's Art of the Americas Redefines the Western Hemisphere Santa Barbara Independent, 1 April 2004
- Great Masters of American Art 2004
- Uniting the Americas: Latin America, North America—200 Years, 200 Works Los Angeles Times, 25 April 2004
- Going Modern: Revisit the Roots of Southern California's Contemporary Art Scene at New Santa Barbara Exhibit Ventura County Star, 2 March 2012
- Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné 2016
Description
This painting won the Women’s Board of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Award of Merit at the Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 1957.